Tag: Robert Ferl

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Among their many accomplishments, one may be best known for trying to grow plants in space; the other, for helping growers battle bacterial spot disease of tomato. The two University of Florida Institute of Food… Read More

Please see caption at end of story. GAINESVILLE, Fla. — People put on sweaters when they’re cold. Plants on the other hand, have to essentially knit one on the fly. Plants “knit” with their genes, and when University… Read More

Please see caption below story. GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A UF/IFAS horticultural sciences professor, known worldwide for research on growing plants in space, has won the 2016 Jeffries Aerospace Medicine and Life Sciences Research Award. The award is given… Read More

Please see caption below GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Space may not be the final frontier for Anna-Lisa Paul and Robert Ferl; they want to grow plants there. Because, who knows, we may one day try to live on Mars,… Read More

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Two University of Florida scientists are tentatively set to go to Kennedy Space Center March 30 for the launch of the SpaceX-3 Dragon capsule to the International Space Station, to send up and then monitor… Read More

Click here for high resolution image. Caption at bottom. GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Two University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences faculty will lead the first Science Café of the fall, titled “Going Boldly: Astrobiology, Space Biology… Read More